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The person behind The CatalystAbout Chetan Turakhia
A business transformation consultant Gujarat businesses have known for thirty years. First as an operator, now as an advisor.
Where the experience comes from
Thirty years inside businesses, not beside them.
Mr. Chetan has spent over thirty years inside businesses: leading technology functions, running operations, owning P&Ls, and managing teams through cash crunches, market entries, digitisation projects and leadership changes.
The Catalyst came from a pattern he kept noticing. Most Indian SMEs don't need a large firm offering management consulting services; they need one experienced person who has handled the problem before, available when the decision is actually being made. That became the practice. He works as a strategy consultant Gujarat owners can meet in person, and increasingly as a family business consultant India for businesses managing a generational handover.
How the work is done
Every engagement starts the same way: your numbers, and a walk through your operation. From that comes a short written plan. Three to five priorities, with names and dates against each. Then a monthly rhythm begins.
Some clients need a fractional CXO two days a month. Others need ninety days of focused work on one problem. Either way, you deal with Chetan directly, in your office, on your factory floor, or on a call. And you always know what the month cost and what it produced.
An Operator's View
He has met payrolls, shipped products and repaired difficult quarters himself.
Plain Speaking
Strategy, technology and finance discussed in everyday language, the way owners actually talk.
Reviewed Monthly
Every retainer is measured against agreed numbers. The value shows, or the work stops.
Years leading businesses
Industries in depth
Owners advised
Credentials
Where the advice was tested.
The top business consulting professionals in any city share one trait: their advice has been tested with their own results. Here is where Chetan's was tested.
- 2019—2024Chief Operating Officer, Motadata (Mindarray Systems)
Led global GSI partnerships and drove Go-To-Market strategies, successfully building a nationwide partner ecosystem that accelerated revenue growth.
- 1988—2013Joint Managing Director, Intellicon Pvt. Ltd.
Progressed from campus recruit to board member, revitalizing product lines and forging strategic global alliances with industry leaders like Avaya and NEC.
- DepthIndustry experience
Manufacturing, BFSI, government, hospitality, and education — plus deep expertise in scaling tech-enabled businesses across ERP, ITSM, and NPM domains.
- NowCurrent focus
Director at VC-ERP Consulting and Founder of The Catalyst. Providing Fractional CXO services India, go-to-market strategy, and digital transformation advisory.
Positioning
A different shape of consulting practice
Ahmedabad has several capable consulting firms, and for some situations a leading business & management consulting practice with a full team is exactly right. The Catalyst is the other shape: one senior advisor, a small number of clients at a time, and personal involvement in every engagement.
Owners choose it when the decision on the table is theirs alone, and they want the person advising them to have carried that weight before.

